'Nuland ensconced in neocon camp who believes in noble lie'

Daniel McAdams is Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. He served as foreign affairs advisor to US Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, including as editorial page editor of the Budapest Sun. He also served as special rapporteur for the British Helsinki Human Rights Group while based in Europe, monitoring human rights and elections on the ground in various contentious states, including Albania during the 1996-1998 civil unrest, Montenegro, Georgia, Armenia, Belarus, Croatia, and Slovakia. He was a Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellow (1998-2000) and an American Swiss Foundation “Young Leader” (2006). He can be reached on Twitter or at dlmcadams@gmail.com

Victoria Nuland’s anti-Russian rhetoric comes from the neocon camp of US politics, seeking to stir the Ukraine crisis, thrilled by the prospect of defense industry expansion and more arms sales, Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Peace Institute told RT.

Daniel McAdams: Because the US does not want
peace to break out. The US is determined to see its project
through. But unfortunately like all of its regime change projects
this one is failing miserably. Victoria Nuland completely
disregards the role of the US in starting the conflict in
Ukraine. She completely glosses over the fact that the army
supported by Kiev has been bombarding Eastern Ukraine, as if
these independent fighters in the east are killing themselves and
their own people. Victoria Nuland was an aid to Dick Cheney; she
is firmly ensconced in the neocon camp. The neocons believe very
strongly in lying, the noble lie… They lied us into the war in
Iraq; they are lying now about Ukraine. Lying is what the neocons
do.

RT:Nuland listed a lot of hostile actions
by Russia without providing any reliable proof. Do you think she
can she be challenged on these topics?

DM: Maybe she is right but the US hasn't
provided one piece of proof, except for Ambassador Geoffrey
Pyatt’s Rorschach tests he passes off as a satellite photo. Maybe
they are true but we have to present some evidence because we’ve
seen now the neocons have lied us into the war. This is much more
serious than the attack on small Iraq. This has the potential for
a global nuclear war. So I think they should be held to a higher
level of scrutiny. Thus far they have not provided any. We do
know however that the US is providing military aid. As the matter
of fact this week hundreds of American troops are arriving in
Ukraine. Why is that not an escalation? Why is it only an
escalation when the opponents of the US government are involved?

RT:How probable is that the Western nations
ship lethal aid to Ukraine?

DM: It is interesting because Victoria Nuland
this week spent some time with Andriy Parubiy, one of the
founders of the fascist party in Ukraine and I believe one of the
founders of the Joseph Goebbels Institute. She met with him this
week and had a photo taken with him. He came back to Ukraine and
assured his comrades that the US will provide additional,
non-lethal weapons - whatever that means - and felt pretty
strongly that they would provide lethal weapons. The Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey has been urging
the US government to provide lethal weapons as has the new US
defense secretary [Ashton Carter], both of whom come from the
military industrial complex which is thrilled by prospect of a
lot more arms to be sold.

RT:Nuland has said the State Department is
in talks with EU leaders for another round of sanctions on
Russia. Do you think the EU will agree?

DM: I think they will be pressured into
agreeing. It is interesting that Nuland said that the new Rada,
the new Ukrainian parliament, in this first four months has been
a hive of activity. I was just watching some videos from the
fights in the Ukrainian parliament. So that was one bit of
unintentional humor probably in her speech. It looks like a fight
club over there.

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